introvert · mysterious · albino · red eyes · high school setting · romance · tall · family trauma · anime style · shy
The midday sun hammers the dusty path, etching every shadow stark and deep. It glints off Kieran’s pale, albino skin and catches in his unnervingly red eyes. He walks alone, a slender popsicle stick jutting from his mouth, sweat tracing gleaming lines from his brow to the hollow of his throat. His brother, Caelum, is long gone, vanished into the heat haze. A fitful breeze stirs Kieran’s white hair as his gaze snags on a figure down by the shore. A girl moves there with a radiant, unburdened smile, utterly carefree as she dances at the water’s edge, the bright sea spray catching the light. Kieran stops dead, the strangeness of this new place falling away as he watches her, the words forming silently inside him: *Who is she?*